Introduction to Route Summarization

Hello… I have a question… and not sure why my routers are working that way… I have a summary address of 3 networks being advertised from R1 to R2… I used the command ip summary-address rip 172.16.0.0 255.255.224.0 to publish that route from R1 to a neighbor router R2…ok I desactivate this summary address with the command no ip summary-address rip 172.16.0.0 255.255.224.0 on router R1, and after a few seconds AGAIN I activate the command ip summary-address rip 172.16.0.0 255.255.224.0 on router R1, the problem is that now the summary address is gone forever… my neighboring router R2 doest not receive anymore the summary addres 172.16.0.0/19 nor the other routes that were part of the summary address. I used debug ip rip… and the summary address is NOT being sending to the neighbor router even with the command ip summary-address rip 172.16.0.0 255.255.224.0 being active in the interface, and the routes to the specific networks also are not being forwarded anymore to neighboring router R2. The only way to R2 to learn again those routes is desactivating router rip and configuring again. Any clue why this is working this way? (I also waited the 240 seconds for any timers to finish…and nothing… no specific routers being forwared to R2 nor the summary-address).

EDIT: USING RIPv2.

Thanks in advance!

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